pluralism Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
  2. noun the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
  3. noun the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time

WordNet


Plu"ral*ism noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
  2. (Eccl.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time. Eng.

Webster 1913